What our leaders have to say about children and climate change

“[Climate change] is the moral challenge of our generation…succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.”
Ban Ki Moon - UN Secretary-General, Bali COP –December 2007


"Success [at Copenhagen] will require two major shifts in how we think - as policy makers, as campaigners, as consumers, as producers, as a society. The first is to think not in political or economic cycles; not just in terms of years or even decade-long programmes and initiatives. But to think in terms of epochs and eras - and how our stewardship will be judged not by tomorrow’s newspapers but by tomorrow’s children."
Speech by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. 29 June 2009

So let us begin. For if we are flexible and pragmatic; if we can resolve to work tirelessly in common effort, then we will achieve our common purpose: a world that is safer, cleaner, and healthier than the one we found; and a future that is worthy of our children.
Speech by US President Barak Obama to the United Nations Summit on climate change 22 September 2009

“It is a moral and economic imperative to guarantee a future for our children.”
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso


Words have been spoken, but what commitments will be made by Friday, December 18th in Copenhagen? We will be there to monitor and hold them to account!!!!